Teen queens Hilary Duff and Amanda posed backstage at The 2003 MTV Movie Awards. "I don't like being compared to anyone or being in a class with someone," Amanda has said. "I'm a teen actress and therefore I'm competing against Hilary Duff. We're different people like everyone else."

Actor Channing Tatum hugged Amanda at the afterparty for the premiere of DreamWork's 2006 film "She's the Man." "I've worked really hard to get to where I am," Amanda said at the time. "Slow and steady wins the race, and I believe in paying your dues."

After "Hairspray" came out, Amanda worked less and less and she began to change. In 2011 she was photographed in Beverly Hills looking sadder than usual. "I feel like if you're an actor or famous, you have to overly prove that you're a normal, cool person," the actress has said.

Amanda often tweets whatever's on her mind. In one message she claimed to have hooked up with fellow Nickelodeon alum Drake Bell on multiple occasions while filming "The Amanda Show." The tweet was later deleted and she denied she ever wrote it.

Police arrested Amanda on May 23 after staff at the former TV star's NYC apartment building witnessed her smoking marijuana. When cops arrived at her home she threw what looked like a bong out the window. As a result, she was arrested on charges of reckless endangerment, tampering with evidence, and criminal possession of marijuana and sent to Roosevelt Hospital for a pyschiatric evaluation.

The next day, a New York City Police officer led the fallen star into court looking like a hot mess in the same sweatpants, tee shirt, and terrible blonde Barbie wig that she was wearing when arrested.